Word: limelighted
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Harvard's leading educators long have basked in a favorable glow of publicity as they have distinguished themselves in academic, administrative, and political fields. It is therefore doubly to the University's credit that one of its minor departments should be brought into the limelight by a state-wide emergency, and that a specialist of Mr. Shepard's ability should be found directing an experimental station, the Forest potentially so great an asset to the state...
...accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more pressing than courtesy to his chief and love of limelight...
Until this point in The Buccaneers, 16-year-old Nan St. George has been its heroine. Thereafter she shares the limelight with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered...
...damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely...
...Some 2,500 students signed an unsuccessful petition for a referendum to recall the board of control. And last week white-haired, conservative Dean George Clarke Sellery, who was Wisconsin's interim acting president after Glenn Frank's ouster last year, pushed the university into the national limelight again by charging that racial bigotry had reared its head on Wisconsin's campus. Said he: "When an effort to put [the Cardinal] into the hands of a different group for next year is supported by an appeal to race prejudice, I am in arms...